*** But if you're a middle aged woman and you present at the ER with chest pain and breathlessness, they might just tell you you're having an anxiety attack. ****
My mother-in-law is like this. Any flutter of the heart and she goes into a panic mode, calls 9-11, calls us. The emergency crews are usually there when we show up, she is hollering and making a scene.
The instant I and my wife walk in the door she immediatly settles down, then begins to gripe at the first responders. We have told them in the past that if she ever begins to gripe at them it means she is now OK.
It used to happen every month. Now she is on a different heart regulator medicine.
"It used to happen every month. Now she is on a different heart regulator medicine."
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It sounds like she was NOT imagining things, she really was having heart rhythm irregularities on her previous medication. It's a good thing the doctor FINALLY changed her medication.
My money is on "Adrenal fatigue". DHEA once or twice a day goes a LONG way towards regulating that cyclical problem. It is no laughing matter.